SOURCE: "Katherine Anne Porter: The Low Comedy of Sex," in American Humor: Essays Presented to John C. Gerber, edited by 0. M. Brack, Jr., Arete Publications, 1977, pp. 139-52.
In the following essay, Gessel sees Katherine Anne Porter's novel Ship of Fools as revealing the delusions of the western world and offering "brief salvation" to its characters through unsentimentalized sex.
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